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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?
2. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?
3. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?
4. What technique is used in the sentence "On my fingers your slick scent mixed with the coconut musk of the suntan lotion we’d repeatedly smeared over each other's bodies" (234) ?
5. On page 243, there is a reference to "Casanova." Why is this historical figure mentioned?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what sense does the narrator mean that, after the night on Oak Street Beach, the dead woman was always "with" him and Gin?
2. What is foreshadowed by the page 233 description of their "lover's lane"?
3. What scenario does Gin keep thinking about after the night on Oak Street Beach?
4. What point about the relationship between men and women is made by the details the narrator observes on his train ride home after the night at Oak Street Beach?
5. What does Gin dream about the dead woman and her grandmother's cottage?
6. What messages about gender, sex, and adulthood are being conveyed in the phrase "entered you as if passing through a gateway into the rest of my life," which the narrator uses to describe his beliefs about what is happening on the beach that night?
7. When the narrator and Gin are on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the people along the Gold Coast doing, and what thematic ideas does his description convey?
8. What does the narrator say might have happened if the dead woman had washed up beside them while he and Gin were trying to have sex on the beach, and why is Gin so offended?
9. What plot events--one immediate and one later--are foreshadowed by the narrator's description of "the bodies of lovers...visible in lightning flashes, scattered like the fallen on a battlefield" (234)?
10. What is the inclusion of details about the House of Dong intended to convey?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim regarding the inclusion of religious imagery in "We Didn't." Use textual evidence to support your assertions, and if you consult outside sources be sure to credit them in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze the strategies that Dybek uses to build the tension that conveys the narrator's sexual desire. Comment on how the use of these strategies to build tension changes after the discovery of the body on the beach, and why. Use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the purpose of the shifting moods Dybek creates in "We Didn't." Be sure to support your assertions with evidence from the text.
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